Two of a kind billed Review by Michael Emans STUDIO 32 produced a challenging double bill of plays at the Arts Centre recently. Under the title Two by Two, one a world premiere of a new play by East Kllbride-based writer Drew Campbell, the other a revival of Jim Cartwright’s Two, the project allowed talent to flourish. Campbell’s piece, about a meeting between a hitman and his intended victim, seemed influenced by Pinter and in particular The Dumb Waiter. Even if the outcome was obvious, Campbell nevertheless both in writing and direction builds up a sense of foreboding as well as nurturing themes of loneliness and isolation. He was well served by two strong performances from Craig Smith, whose chattering insecurity threw Jonathan Collins’ quiet cynicism and loneliness into relief. The other part of the double bill was Julie Brown’s rather sombre and dark take on Jim Cartwright’s play Two. The play uses stunning language and in particular verbal imagery to invoke a whole community of people and characters . Two actors performed the piece as they shifted from playing the various customers in the pub in between returning to their central characterisations of the emotionally distant landlord and his haunted wife. Gerry Kernan and Tracy Blake gave heartfelt and sensitive performances and brought out the bruising poetry of the dregs of lives lost at the bottom of a pint glass.